This is a draft policy and has not been adopted by WAMS
About iPlaces WAMS
iPlaces WAMS is the open scholarly publication of World Association of Marine Stations. It publishes the full range of research outputs connected to the station and its place. Every record is citable, has its own DOI, and links its authors, projects, data and place.
iPlaces WAMS is issued by World Association of Marine Stations, which is its publisher for citation purposes. It is published on the iPlaces platform by iPlaces LLC, Nevada, USA.
Editors
Editor: coming soon
Editorial board: coming soon
The editor declares conflicts of interest. Records the editor authored or co-authored are handled by Erin Robinson, iPlaces LLC.
What review each record gets
Coming soon.
Submitting
Authors sign in with ORCID and submit through the station's editorial system. Author guidelines: https://iplacesalliance.org/docs/. There are no author fees of any kind.
Access, licence and copyright
The metadata of every record (title, authors, abstract, place, DOI and links) is free to read, with no sign-in. Some content may be restricted, and access to restricted content is set by the station. Where content is open, unless the record says otherwise, it is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) licence. Authors keep copyright in their work and credit any material from third parties.
Ethical, legal and social responsibility
The station follows the guidance of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) on authorship, conflicts of interest, research misconduct and data fabrication. Certain data, samples and knowledge may need special consideration for ethical, legal or social reasons, including privacy and commercial confidentiality: for example traditional knowledge, archaeological artefacts, endangered species, medical data and human subject research. Government permits or consent may be required. Authors address these when they submit, and the station sets access accordingly. Records can carry Local Contexts Labels and Notices; users are asked to respect them.
Corrections, new versions and withdrawals
Authors correct or update published work by submitting a new version, which an editor reviews before it is published.
Minor errors may be fixed by an editor.
A withdrawn record keeps its DOI, which leads to a withdrawal notice, and the content is removed.
Concerns and appeals go to the contact address below. Until the editorial board is in place, appeals are heard by Erin Robinson, iPlaces LLC; appeals about records she handled are heard by the editor.
Identifiers, indexing and preservation
DOIs are registered with DataCite, and metadata is shared openly with DataCite, ORCID and OpenAlex. Arrangements to deposit published records with CLOCKSS are being finalised.
Privacy
https://iplacesalliance.org/privacy/
Contact
erin@iplacesalliance.org